Sajal Sen

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 971 citations indexed

About

Sajal Sen is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sajal Sen has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 971 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Organic Chemistry, 6 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Sajal Sen's work include N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry (4 papers), Click Chemistry and Applications (3 papers) and Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection (3 papers). Sajal Sen is often cited by papers focused on N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry (4 papers), Click Chemistry and Applications (3 papers) and Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection (3 papers). Sajal Sen collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and South Korea. Sajal Sen's co-authors include Jonathan L. Sessler, Adam C. Sedgwick, Jonathan F. Arambula, Jong Seung Kim, Vincent M. Lynch, Miae Won, Matthew S. Levine, Xiao‐Peng He, Tony D. James and Yi Zang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Sajal Sen

25 papers receiving 962 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Metal-based anticancer agents as immunogenic cell death inducers: the past, present, and future
    2022 210 citations Sajal Sen, Miae Won et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sajal Sen United States 15 358 311 273 222 171 25 971
Xuling Xue China 15 266 0.7× 246 0.8× 204 0.7× 167 0.8× 217 1.3× 27 736
Liu‐Yi Liu China 20 423 1.2× 378 1.2× 847 3.1× 191 0.9× 154 0.9× 39 1.5k
Shaolong Qi China 22 210 0.6× 289 0.9× 395 1.4× 353 1.6× 69 0.4× 60 1.1k
Jiney Jose New Zealand 18 409 1.1× 255 0.8× 416 1.5× 238 1.1× 67 0.4× 43 1.2k
Guo-Rong Chen China 16 380 1.1× 239 0.8× 447 1.6× 99 0.4× 92 0.5× 21 932
Sreejesh Sreedharan United Kingdom 17 290 0.8× 205 0.7× 230 0.8× 124 0.6× 120 0.7× 25 693
Weon Sup Shin South Korea 11 377 1.1× 479 1.5× 269 1.0× 142 0.6× 44 0.3× 11 806
Ruibing An China 19 413 1.2× 677 2.2× 370 1.4× 97 0.4× 50 0.3× 31 1.1k
Fen Qi China 14 398 1.1× 310 1.0× 203 0.7× 151 0.7× 121 0.7× 24 776

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sajal Sen

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Levine, Matthew S., Sajal Sen, Esther Y. Maier, et al.. (2025). Long-Lived Immunogenic Cell Death Induced by a Water-Soluble Redox Active Au(I) Bis-N-Heterocyclic Carbene. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(27). 23574–23582. 2 indexed citations
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Sen, Sajal, et al.. (2024). A different interpretation of the DIANA fMRI signal. Science Advances. 10(13). eadl2034–eadl2034. 4 indexed citations
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Sen, Sajal, et al.. (2023). Immunogenic cell death-inducing metal complexes: From the benchtop to the clinic. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 73. 102277–102277. 14 indexed citations
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Sen, Sajal, Fumitaka Ishiwari, Ramandeep Kaur, et al.. (2023). Supramolecular Recognition within a Nanosized “Buckytrap” That Exhibits Substantial Photoconductivity. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(2). 1031–1039. 8 indexed citations
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Thiabaud, Grégory, Miriam Schwalm, Sajal Sen, et al.. (2023). Texaphyrin-Based Calcium Sensor for Multimodal Imaging. ACS Sensors. 8(10). 3855–3861. 2 indexed citations
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Sen, Sajal, Miae Won, Matthew S. Levine, et al.. (2022). Metal-based anticancer agents as immunogenic cell death inducers: the past, present, and future. Chemical Society Reviews. 51(4). 1212–1233. 210 indexed citations breakdown →
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Xu, Yunjie, Yingwei Wang, Jusung An, et al.. (2021). 2D-ultrathin MXene/DOXjade platform for iron chelation chemo-photothermal therapy. Bioactive Materials. 14. 76–85. 79 indexed citations
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Sen, Sajal, et al.. (2021). Covalent and non-covalent albumin binding of Au(i) bis-NHCsviapost-synthetic amide modification. Chemical Science. 12(21). 7547–7553. 16 indexed citations
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Sen, Sajal, Stephanie Hufnagel, Esther Y. Maier, et al.. (2020). Rationally Designed Redox-Active Au(I) N-Heterocyclic Carbene: An Immunogenic Cell Death Inducer. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(49). 20536–20541. 94 indexed citations
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Kaur, Ramandeep, Sajal Sen, Jakob Kjelstrup‐Hansen, et al.. (2020). Semiconducting Supramolecular Organic Frameworks Assembled from a Near-Infrared Fluorescent Macrocyclic Probe and Fullerenes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(26). 11497–11505. 32 indexed citations
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Sen, Sajal, Adam C. Sedgwick, Vincent M. Lynch, et al.. (2020). Toward multifunctional anticancer therapeutics: post-synthetic carbonate functionalisation of asymmetric Au(i) bis-N-heterocyclic carbenes. Chemical Communications. 56(57). 7877–7880. 14 indexed citations
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Thiabaud, Grégory, Guangan He, Sajal Sen, et al.. (2020). Oxaliplatin Pt(IV) prodrugs conjugated to gadolinium-texaphyrin as potential antitumor agents. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(13). 7021–7029. 49 indexed citations
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Wang, Fei, Sajal Sen, Chuang Chen, et al.. (2020). Self-Assembled Cagelike Receptor That Binds Biologically Relevant Dicarboxylic Acids via Proton-Coupled Anion Recognition. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(4). 1987–1994. 24 indexed citations
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Tian, He, Adam C. Sedgwick, Hai‐Hao Han, et al.. (2020). Fluorescent probes for the imaging of lipid droplets in live cells. Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 427. 213577–213577. 204 indexed citations
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Sen, Sajal, Yue Li, Vincent M. Lynch, et al.. (2019). Expanding the biological utility of bis-NHC gold(i) complexes through post synthetic carbamate conjugation. Chemical Communications. 55(71). 10627–10630. 23 indexed citations
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Thiabaud, Grégory, Yoo‐Jin Ghang, Sajal Sen, et al.. (2019). Platinum(IV)-Ferrocene Conjugates and Their Cyclodextrin Host–Guest Complexes. Inorganic Chemistry. 58(12). 7886–7894. 18 indexed citations
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Sarma, Tridib, Sajal Sen, Won‐Young Cha, et al.. (2018). Proton-Coupled Redox Switching in an Annulated π-Extended Core-Modified Octaphyrin. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(38). 12111–12119. 48 indexed citations
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Allavena, Paola, Giuseppina Giardina, Sajal Sen, et al.. (1998). IFN-β Partially Counteracts Inhibition of Natural Killer Activity Induced by Some Antitumor Agents. Journal of Interferon & Cytokine Research. 18(2). 87–93. 7 indexed citations

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